Cat. no. P 760
Mary Magdalene
Description
- Date:
- 1960
- Technique:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 62 x 62 cm
- Signature:
- Signed and dated lower right corner: Dalí / 1960
- Location:
- Private collection
Provenance
- Carstairs Gallery, New York
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, October 23rd, 1974
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, December 9th, 1998
- Private collection
- Auctioned at Christie's, London, February 4th, 2008
Observations
We have entitled this work "Mary Magdalene", in the belief that this is the picture Dalí presented as number 8 in the exhibition at the Carstairs Gallery in New York during the months of December 1960 and January 1961.
Exhibitions
- 1960, New York, Carstairs Gallery, Salvador Dali, December 1960 - January 1961, cat. no. 8
Bibliography
- Luis Romero, Josep Postius (il.), Aquel Dalí, Argos Vergara, Barcelona, 1984, p. 64 (detail) (indirect image)
- The Worlds of Gaudi and Dalí: fantasies in Spain | Dalí: his magic of figures, Asahi Shimbun, [S.l.], 1990, p. 27
- Robert Descharnes, Gilles Néret, Salvador Dalí, 1904 -1989, Benedikt Taschen, Köln, 1994, p. 525
- Dalí, Rizzoli, New York, 2005, p. 394
- Begoña Souviron López, Dalí en el contexto cultural centroeuropeo : literatura e iconografia, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, 2014, p. 39 (detail)
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